Delphine Mary Vera Parrott FRSE (2 May 1928 – 17 January 2016) was a British endocrinologist, immunologist, and academic.
He valued her skill in vivisecting small animals and she started by transplanting ovaries into mice that had been sterilised by radiation, as a way of restoring their fertility.
[2] Another experiment led to a major paper which was published in Science in 1960: "Role of Olfactory Sense in Pregnancy Block by Strange Males".
[7] In this case, she removed the olfactory bulb of female mice to show that this prevented them from aborting when exposed to a strange male.
Her co-author, Hilda Bruce had previously shown that mice would have a miscarriage if they smelt a strange male.